Find Your Unique Life Tagline

There’s something beautiful about the idea that we all carry an essence.  Something that can’t be summed up in a job title or a social media bio.  It’s the feeling we leave behind when we exit a room.  The energy we move with when we’re not trying to impress anyone.  It’s the soft truth of who we are beneath the roles and beneath the noise.  A tagline that’s not written by the world but rather written by yourself. 

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to fit into taglines that didn’t belong to me.  
The “go-getter.”
The “always okay.”
The “strong one.”

But those weren’t identities.  They were masks in which I wore to survive in spaces that didn’t see me clearly.  They were expectations I inherited.  The quiet rules I thought I had to live by to feel accepted, safe, and to belong. 

For so long, I measured my worth in how well I could perform those roles.  I smiled through pain. I held everything together.  I stayed quiet when I needed to speak.  I shrunk myself into a version of me that felt more palatable. 

But here’s the thing about living your life through someone else’s lens: eventually, it starts to blur your own reflection.  You forget who you were before the world told you who to be. 

It took years of unmasking, untangling, and unbecoming before I realized that I get to choose a tagline myself.  Not based on what I’ve achieved.  Not based on how well I hide my struggles. And not based on what others need from me.  But based on who I am—fully, imperfectly, authentically.  

Now, my tagline is something like:
“Soft but steady. Quiet, not silent. Finding light in the unseen.”
Or maybe:
“For the ones who feel too much and keep showing up anyway.”

It’s a reflection of the way I love, the way I move, the way I care.  It honors my sensitivity. My resilience. My neurodivergence.  It makes space for the parts of me I once tried to hide.

Because the truth is that your tagline isn’t something you invent.  It’s something you remember.  It’s been there all along, woven into the way your presence lingers, the way your heart beats, and the way you see the world. 

“You don’t find your worth in the roles you play. You find it in the truth you let yourself live.”

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